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31.		A Fervent Defense of Front-running HFTs (chrisstucchio.com)
		107 points by spindritf on April 7, 2014 \| 154 comments
32.		Skype TX (skype.com)
		115 points by jaboutboul on April 7, 2014 \| 52 comments
33.		Half-Life 1 engine based games (github.com/valvesoftware)
		101 points by ekianjo on April 7, 2014 \| 49 comments
34.		BASIC at 50 (dartmouth.edu)
		96 points by WoodenChair on April 7, 2014 \| 64 comments
35.		A veteran programmer explains how the stock market became “rigged” (washingtonpost.com)
		92 points by xmpir on April 7, 2014 \| 120 comments
36.		Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process (behindthescenesrecruiter.com)
		92 points by dodger on April 7, 2014 \| 88 comments
37.		Dead Man's Snitch – Monitoring for Scheduled Tasks (deadmanssnitch.com)
		94 points by xmjw on April 7, 2014 \| 38 comments
38.		The Excuses for Purging Brendan Eich Are the Old Excuses for Firing Gays (slate.com)
		84 points by DaveMebs on April 7, 2014 \| 101 comments
39.		Why Bother With Cucumber Testing? (jackkinsella.ie)
		80 points by wanderingmarker on April 7, 2014 \| 29 comments
40.		The less Americans know about Ukraine’s location, the more they want ... (washingtonpost.com)
		80 points by ycaspirant on April 7, 2014 \| 70 comments
41.		Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say (washingtonpost.com)
		78 points by petethomas on April 7, 2014 \| 45 comments
42.		Facebook for Android and Why Zuckerberg now owns your ass (dannybrown.me)
		76 points by intull on April 7, 2014 \| 83 comments
43.		Alzheimer website slowly disappearing (i-remember.fr)
		74 points by stevoo on April 7, 2014 \| 29 comments
44.		Xbox One Will Be Able To Upload Game Recordings To YouTube (techcrunch.com)
		74 points by rrpadhy on April 7, 2014 \| 33 comments
45.		Dyn Decided To Stop Offering Free Accounts for Dynamic DNS (dyn.com)
		71 points by pentium10 on April 7, 2014 \| 32 comments
46.		Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany?
		69 points by alleycat on April 7, 2014 \| 120 comments
47.		How many people does it take to colonize another star system? (popularmechanics.com)
		55 points by arnauddri on April 7, 2014 \| 67 comments
48.		Ask HN: How do you feel about HBO's Silicon Valley?
		51 points by jawerty on April 7, 2014 \| 27 comments
49.		Critical Vulnerability: AWS Credential Disclosure (trustlook.com)
		53 points by zhongjiewu on April 7, 2014 \| 41 comments
50.		Blue Bottle acquires Tonx (tonx.org)
		50 points by coloneltcb on April 7, 2014 \| 27 comments
51.		Ballast: A tool for balancing user load across SSH servers (nasa.gov)
		48 points by msantos on April 7, 2014 \| 16 comments
52.		Encryption with Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) (digital-era.net)
		47 points by triberian on April 7, 2014 \| 30 comments
53.		[dupe] Charge Your Phone in 30 Seconds? An Israeli Firm Says It Can (wsj.com)
		46 points by shawndumas on April 7, 2014 \| 39 comments
54.		In mobile, everything is still wide open (ben-evans.com)
		46 points by katsucurry on April 7, 2014 \| 6 comments
55.		Things I Wish Every Search Box Did (insideintercom.io)
		45 points by redox_ on April 7, 2014 \| 26 comments
56.		Test if a URL uses Node.js (dotheyusenode.herokuapp.com)
		37 points by wlaurance on April 7, 2014 \| 32 comments
57.		Show HN: We created a Mac app that creates presentations from Markdown (decksetapp.com)
		35 points by chriseidhof on April 7, 2014 \| 29 comments
58.		The recovery puzzle: New factory in Ohio struggles to match jobs to job-seekers (washingtonpost.com)
		35 points by whbk on April 7, 2014 \| 42 comments
59.		Brendan Eich (law.harvard.edu)
		38 points by jseliger on April 7, 2014 \| 54 comments
60.		Uber Experiments With A Courier Service In New York City (techcrunch.com)
		41 points by coloneltcb on April 7, 2014 \| 13 comments
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